MariaCoronel_The_Perfect_Job_ContentAnalysis

Content Analysis
The Perfect Job

The Perfect Job is a game that allows ESL or EFL college students who are in their intermediate or advanced levels to review the different steps necessary to obtain a job. Some of the necessary steps are to complete a curriculum vitae, dress appropriately for the occasion, participate in the interview, and be able to use vocabulary required to persuade prospective employer and to ask valuable questions about the position, and finally, send a thank you note. This game uses four corners to present the different steps of the interviewing process. For example, writing their curriculum vitae and being in the lobby ready for the interview. Each player will draw cards that will ask questions pertaining to each corner of the board. Each participant will accumulate points. The person with the most points proceeds to the job interview in the middle square. The goal is to, get the job!

The smallest unit of information || What clothing item is part of the appropriate attire to wear for a job interview? Vocabulary words collocations idioms pronunciation || Identify if the picture in the card provided is part of the appropriate attire for an interview. In the preparation phase, Key words will be highlighted on the questions cards and a definition and pronunciation key will feature at the bottom of the card. In the interview phase: The same key words that the players were exposed to earlier on in the game will come up during the actual interview so that the players would use it in context. || Categories of things with a common name and critical attributes || What is a job interview? Body language cues Verbal communication skills || The game presents four different components related to a job interview. Players have to answer questions and use body language cues Players answer communication skills questions and they have to use these skills || If-Then relationships between concepts || If ESL students want to get the perfect job, they must know how to successfully complete the steps required. || The game is a set of guidelines that allows students to practice how to successfully write a curriculum vitae, dress for the occasion, be effective in the interview, and send a thank-you note. || Step by step actions in a series || Learners must complete each series of steps required to complete a curriculum vitae, dress adequately when going to an interview, express appropriately with the prospective boss, and how to formally write a thank you note. || The game focuses on the skills of using the appropriate essential language commonly used in written and oral instances of job hunting. || Natural or routine sequences of events || The process necessary to succeeding in an interview requires a sequence of events, beginning from submitting a correctly written (in form and language) curriculum vitae, continuing to finding the appropriate attire to wear the day of the interview, participating in the interview, to finally writing the thank-you note. || The game focuses on the series of events required to finding the perfect job. Each corner of the board allows students to focus on each of those steps (or skills) and provides opportunity to practice the progression of events (what is involved in) related to each step. || Unpredictable happenings || Although there many common questions to a job interview, prospective employers might include unexpected questions on why a prospective employee has some gaps between employment, or might show extreme interest as to why there was a specific ”reason for leaving employment” statement. Stuck in traffic bus is late Dry cleaner's delay (lost garment) dripping coffee || Students have the opportunity to receive tokens that can be exchanged between players if the answer seems to be too difficult to answer in the allotted time. Another student who can answer that question easily might want to trade for easier answers to respond. The probabilities will be represented in the various chance cards that the players will draw. The chance cards can be either positive like chemistry between the applicant and the interviewer or can be negative like being late because you were stuck in traffic. || The backdrop for all the content || Job-seeking. || In the context of finding employment, the game provides practical opportunities to understand the interview process, and the desired outcome of getting the job. Obtaining employment will largely depend upon the knowledge of learners in each step of the process. || The roles or points of view from which people look at and interact with this content || Job-hunter. (Possibility of including interviewer role card as well ?) || This game is played from the perspective of the individual seeking employment. All the players share a common interest, to interview for the same employment position, and to finally, get the job. They are playing the role of the job hunter, and not the employer ?. ||
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